thought when making ethanol from corn, starches were enzymatically converted to sugar? But i suppose if that were true big starchy tubers which are also sweet like sweet potatoes would be ideal.
I still think celluloistic ethanol production is most promising as you can grow for the most biomass/m2. You could also select for plants which put certain nutrients into the soil and rotate them in schedule with other plants while getting paid by mass for the ethanol feedstock.
"who submitted it to/. is actually pretty irrelevant"
Not when you use the phrase 'Those crazy kids at...' which implies you aren't one of them. It's disingenuous, as GP suggests.
"I suppose you could quibble that I could have used the word "we" in the article description, and that would be something of a fair point. But I just have a habit of writing in a detached, 3rd party voice like that."
Except this is not mere detachment ('Fogbeam labs have...'). It's something different and you know it.
When I see comments on the inclusion of Digital Restriction Management in Web standards couched in approving tones, I know that I must be getting old. To me the only valid use of DRM in the long term is as an answer to a trivia question on screwy 'net practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
If in the interim DRM is deemed necessary for some things by some people then incorporate it in a desktop or browser widget as is currently done, say, for Netflix.
And no, I haven't any wonderful answers to all kinds 'good' questions on this, or any deep thoughts on this and the related larger issues; it's just my old fart reaction.
When I bought a book, it was mine. When I used a camera it wasn't locked in to one film manufacturer. Anything with an engine would happily use any brand of gasoline of the correct octane range. When I found that a DVD player/burner I had bought was region-locked, I half flipped. Ditto, when terms of 'sale' for a program I bought on CD forbade making an archive copy.
But then, when I went to see a movie at the theater the thought to bring a movie camera never crossed my mind.
Oh, yeah, just for grins: take Netflix for an example - it uses some kind of DRM, right? (Yeah, I know it does, 'cuz I had to fire up an vm of XP to install Silverlight - until an enterprising duo came up with a wonderful change to Wine that lets me use Netflix from my Ubuntu desktop.) So then, just how many of the protected movies on Netflix don't have torrent or magnet links somewhere? If the answer is few to none, then WTF is the use of having the DRM?
I would think that this is a requirement in their content contracts with studios. The real answer is there is no use. You think people would use netflix to archive every video they could ever want and then cancel?
Ferengi still peddle their wares, like Quark, even with replicators. Hell, he sells things from the replicator. It is implied that many people think replicators taste different.
There's strong evidence that Regan's October Surprise was real. There's also Strong evidence that the moon landings are real. I'm capable of believing in both. Nice try trying to paint me as a loon though through a weak association to a completely unrelated topic. Any debaters/logic guys here know which fallacy that is?
No, those of you who think I'm being a partisan hack by singling out the worst war criminal of our time are being knee jerk partisan hacks. Obama has done many bad things, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, violating the war powers act, etc. But none of those come close to causing hundreds of thousands of innocent people to die so your cronies get lucrative war contracts. Obama is a common criminal, Bush is directly responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden. Get some perspective.
How about the forgotten, still living war criminal who's responsibility for war crimes is pretty ironclad and more brazen than Bush/Cheney and orders of magnitude larger than Obama.
Henry Kissinger. Christopher Hitchens wrote an excellent book called "The Trial of Henry Kissinger". I think it can be found free online and there's a video of it on Netflix.
The one minded indifference to suffering is astounding. I can at least entertain the thought that Bush thinks what he did was right, Cheney probably realizes the truth more, and Kissinger, if he had a conscience wouldn't have slept the past forty years.
Worse than treason? If Nixon was ready to screw up a peace deal, if he'd had anything on the Democrats, he would have used it. Nixon sent the plumbers to Watergate to dig up dirt on the Democrats in 72.
Putting pure politicians in charge of military decisions (or anything in need of objective reality) is a problem.
Yeah, we should leave diplomacy to the generals.
Pure politicians? You mean like State Department officials who compete in elections? Or serve at the President's will and are merely confirmed.
Although I don't doubt there are Generals who would have made fine diplomats, it's something you could probably say about them after the fact. There have been some Generals in Iraq 1&2 with very questionable morale, and the entire DoD. Like the man ordering engagement in the highway of death, Schwarzkoff:
The first reason why we bombed the highway coming north out of Kuwait is because there was a great deal of military equipment on that highway, and I had given orders to all my commanders that I wanted every piece of Iraqi equipment that we possibly could destroy. Secondly, this was not a bunch of innocent people just trying to make their way back across the border to Iraq. This was a bunch of rapists, murderers and thugs who had raped and pillaged downtown Kuwait City and now were trying to get out of the country before they were caught.
Now Iraq was leaving because they knew they were hosed and decided it was time to follow the UNSC resolution. But the General already had passed diplomatic judgement on this retreating army. Since they're leaving extra fast, it is time to kill extra fast!
Thinking which I don't doubt would resonate with the likes of Nixon and Kissinger.
Most of the interesting stuff I read on the Internet these days is on email lists, which are relatively hard to find and hence have a high signal to noise ratio from people who went out of their way to find them, while the web has mostly become a means of tracking people and pushing ads on them.
Agreed.
I mean, hell, the only reason me and you came here was to renew our tracking cookies!
Not get other opinions and post our own completely ironic ones.
Those who say Wikimedia is powerless, I completely disagree. They're a non-profit concerned with sharing the largest quantity of the most accurate knowledge with the most people. They control several of the most popular websites on earth with few commercial interests and have representatives in MANY languages.
Their largest subset (or was it them too? wp and wm?) also showed their willingness to shutdown completely for a day to demonstrate principles. Google would have taken quite a hit monetarily if they completely shut down (they just posted links and warnings).
Voyager 1 won't escape the Oort cloud (really the outer Oort cloud) for another 14,000 - 28,000 years. (Probably due to running out of power in the next 10 to 15 years.)
Perhaps I have misinterpreted your statement, but are you aware of Newton's First Law of Motion? Voyager has no need for power to continue its journey; running out of power will have no effect on its velocity.
My guess is that, aside from attitude adjustment, Voyager hasn't fired its thrusters since its encounter with Titan in 1980.
And I hear they have replaced the thrusters with the mafia for attitude adjustments of greater scale.
80 mg Oxycontin tablets / month (suitable only for a seriously terminal cancer patient)
I have back pain, you insensitive clod. BACK PAIN It hurts!
So go see a chiropractor.
It kinda surprises me how many "smart people" don't seem to realize that developing a heroin addiction isn't going to do shit to fix whatever's causing you pain.
It's kind of surprising home many smart people think that doctors and chiropractors can do anything for certain types of neck and back problems. I have a friend who hurt her back playing college basketball. She had 4 surgeries that just made her back worse every time. She takes narcotics because she needs something for the pain. Otherwise she'd probably want to kill herself. Is she an addict? Certainly. But you can't take narcotics long term without becoming physically addicted. It is physiologically impossible. That doesn't mean she is abusing them and out on the street trying to supplement her prescriptions. Also, heroine is an opiate but not all opiates are heroine.
Almost. Heroin is an opioid as it has primary affinities to the mu opioid receptor. To be an opioid it must be a ligand for any opioid receptor(k,mu ect.). Now opiates are opioids derived from P. Somniferum (opium poppy) like morphine, codeine, thebaine. All opiates are opioids but not the reverse.
Heroin is diacetyl-morphine (discovered when Bayer was acetylating everything they touched which led to their most well known drug ever, acetyl-salycitic acid or Aspirin.) which makes it a semi-synthetic opioid like hydrocodone, the former from morphine the latter generally from thebaine.
It was developed to battle the cough from TB while being less reinforcing than morphine. They were truly embarrassed to discover heroin is inactive and bioactivates to it's pro-drug in the central nervous system, morphine. Due to the pharmacology heroin enters the brain more quickly following injection than morphine, after which the physiological effects are identical. The subjective size of the "rush" has to do with how quickly the brain reaches peak levels, making heroin preferable to people abusing it recreationally, and inconsequential for the treatment of pain (in most countries).
Why Britain still uses Heroin in palliative care is beyond me when there are stronger, less stigmatized drugs like oxymorphone.
Mendel tried to share. Wegener tried to share. Aristarchus of Samos tried to share. Society chose to cover their ears, close their eyes, and sing "la la la".
Schrader, Ambrose, Rüdiger and van der Linde also tried to share their discovery, but ultimately, the German High command decided not to use nerve agents against allied targets in WWII.
Some things should not be "shared".
Hitler was actually the one who demanded they not be used, but sarin was to be stockpiled anyway. I believe this was due to an experience he had during WW1.
Your message, and the way it disparages the 'left' is in itself a refutation of the idea that Texas is tolerant.
As far as Texas being successful, the fact that its citizens have the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country puts that under great question.
The fact that Texas is tied for last place in the percentage of its children with health care insurance and is fourth in the nation in child poverty again brings into question as to whether it is 'successful'.
The decisions on things like teaching evolution in Texas schools call into question the process by which it is governed. The fact that Texas ranks 50th among the states in percentage of citizens over 25 with a high school diploma illustrates the impact of these decisions.
This.
Texas has some successful rankings like one of the only red states to give rather than take from the federal government. Rent is cheap, gas is cheap, no state income tax. But we are far from perfect.
And tolerance is generally centered on the major metropolitan areas, there are plenty of bigots out there.
You're all wrong,There is is only one way to preserve his word from destruction by psychiatrists or evil Xenu.
According to the CST, an entity formed to manage the Church of Scientology's copyright affairs, the purpose of the base is to provide storage space for an archiving project to preserve Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings, films and recordings for future generations. Hubbard's texts have been engraved on stainless steel tablets and encased in titanium capsules underground. The project began in the late 1980s.
Why wouldn't you just buy several 600mbit packages? Get tight with your neighbors on each side and peer your connections. Who can really saturate a single line like that anyway? Maybe when 4K TV's become the new HD minimum and you can stream it. (and Sony's 4K LCD is $25,000, of course they throw in a free Xperia tablet, but they should really pay you to take it.)
Aldous Huxley had it more right then George Orwell: distract the people with luxuries and short term goals, at the expense of long-term freedoms. That said, his dystopia was arguably not one: it wasn't like those who brooked changed were murdered or imprisoned or tortured - they were just discredited and lavished with benefits, but ultimately kept irrelevant.
I find Huxley's world more depressing. At least Winston can feel.
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thought when making ethanol from corn, starches were enzymatically converted to sugar? But i suppose if that were true big starchy tubers which are also sweet like sweet potatoes would be ideal.
I still think celluloistic ethanol production is most promising as you can grow for the most biomass/m2. You could also select for plants which put certain nutrients into the soil and rotate them in schedule with other plants while getting paid by mass for the ethanol feedstock.
Le sigh.
Is that agreement or a sigh at the fact that she did not "literally" take the food off a table the children were at, but indirectly did it?
1945.
Almost. Fermi was really this discovery.
"who submitted it to /. is actually pretty irrelevant"
Not when you use the phrase 'Those crazy kids at...' which implies you aren't one of them. It's disingenuous, as GP suggests.
"I suppose you could quibble that I could have used the word "we" in the article description, and that would be something of a fair point. But I just have a habit of writing in a detached, 3rd party voice like that."
Except this is not mere detachment ('Fogbeam labs have...'). It's something different and you know it.
This.
You were being less than completely honest.
When I see comments on the inclusion of Digital Restriction Management in Web standards couched in approving tones, I know that I must be getting old. To me the only valid use of DRM in the long term is as an answer to a trivia question on screwy 'net practices of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
If in the interim DRM is deemed necessary for some things by some people then incorporate it in a desktop or browser widget as is currently done, say, for Netflix.
And no, I haven't any wonderful answers to all kinds 'good' questions on this, or any deep thoughts on this and the related larger issues; it's just my old fart reaction.
When I bought a book, it was mine. When I used a camera it wasn't locked in to one film manufacturer. Anything with an engine would happily use any brand of gasoline of the correct octane range. When I found that a DVD player/burner I had bought was region-locked, I half flipped. Ditto, when terms of 'sale' for a program I bought on CD forbade making an archive copy.
But then, when I went to see a movie at the theater the thought to bring a movie camera never crossed my mind.
Oh, yeah, just for grins: take Netflix for an example - it uses some kind of DRM, right? (Yeah, I know it does, 'cuz I had to fire up an vm of XP to install Silverlight - until an enterprising duo came up with a wonderful change to Wine that lets me use Netflix from my Ubuntu desktop.) So then, just how many of the protected movies on Netflix don't have torrent or magnet links somewhere? If the answer is few to none, then WTF is the use of having the DRM?
I would think that this is a requirement in their content contracts with studios. The real answer is there is no use. You think people would use netflix to archive every video they could ever want and then cancel?
....has been drawn my fellow geeks.
More like "the twenty sided die is cast."
Ferengi still peddle their wares, like Quark, even with replicators. Hell, he sells things from the replicator. It is implied that many people think replicators taste different.
North Dakota is booming. People are moving there in droves.
And it has some of the lowest unemployment on earth. 1-2%
There's strong evidence that Regan's October Surprise was real. There's also Strong evidence that the moon landings are real. I'm capable of believing in both. Nice try trying to paint me as a loon though through a weak association to a completely unrelated topic. Any debaters/logic guys here know which fallacy that is?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence ?
No, those of you who think I'm being a partisan hack by singling out the worst war criminal of our time are being knee jerk partisan hacks. Obama has done many bad things, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, violating the war powers act, etc. But none of those come close to causing hundreds of thousands of innocent people to die so your cronies get lucrative war contracts. Obama is a common criminal, Bush is directly responsible for more American deaths than Bin Laden. Get some perspective.
How about the forgotten, still living war criminal who's responsibility for war crimes is pretty ironclad and more brazen than Bush/Cheney and orders of magnitude larger than Obama.
Henry Kissinger. Christopher Hitchens wrote an excellent book called "The Trial of Henry Kissinger". I think it can be found free online and there's a video of it on Netflix.
The one minded indifference to suffering is astounding. I can at least entertain the thought that Bush thinks what he did was right, Cheney probably realizes the truth more, and Kissinger, if he had a conscience wouldn't have slept the past forty years.
a.k.a. Nixon had worse stuff on the democrats
Worse than treason? If Nixon was ready to screw up a peace deal, if he'd had anything on the Democrats, he would have used it. Nixon sent the plumbers to Watergate to dig up dirt on the Democrats in 72.
Putting pure politicians in charge of military decisions (or anything in need of objective reality) is a problem.
Yeah, we should leave diplomacy to the generals.
Pure politicians? You mean like State Department officials who compete in elections? Or serve at the President's will and are merely confirmed.
Although I don't doubt there are Generals who would have made fine diplomats, it's something you could probably say about them after the fact. There have been some Generals in Iraq 1&2 with very questionable morale, and the entire DoD. Like the man ordering engagement in the highway of death, Schwarzkoff:
The first reason why we bombed the highway coming north out of Kuwait is because there was a great deal of military equipment on that highway, and I had given orders to all my commanders that I wanted every piece of Iraqi equipment that we possibly could destroy. Secondly, this was not a bunch of innocent people just trying to make their way back across the border to Iraq. This was a bunch of rapists, murderers and thugs who had raped and pillaged downtown Kuwait City and now were trying to get out of the country before they were caught.
Now Iraq was leaving because they knew they were hosed and decided it was time to follow the UNSC resolution. But the General already had passed diplomatic judgement on this retreating army. Since they're leaving extra fast, it is time to kill extra fast!
Thinking which I don't doubt would resonate with the likes of Nixon and Kissinger.
Mental gymnastics keep some in shape. Looks like you need some mental physical therapy!
Most of the interesting stuff I read on the Internet these days is on email lists, which are relatively hard to find and hence have a high signal to noise ratio from people who went out of their way to find them, while the web has mostly become a means of tracking people and pushing ads on them.
Agreed.
I mean, hell, the only reason me and you came here was to renew our tracking cookies!
Not get other opinions and post our own completely ironic ones.
Those who say Wikimedia is powerless, I completely disagree. They're a non-profit concerned with sharing the largest quantity of the most accurate knowledge with the most people. They control several of the most popular websites on earth with few commercial interests and have representatives in MANY languages.
Their largest subset (or was it them too? wp and wm?) also showed their willingness to shutdown completely for a day to demonstrate principles. Google would have taken quite a hit monetarily if they completely shut down (they just posted links and warnings).
Voyager 1 won't escape the Oort cloud (really the outer Oort cloud) for another 14,000 - 28,000 years. (Probably due to running out of power in the next 10 to 15 years.)
Perhaps I have misinterpreted your statement, but are you aware of Newton's First Law of Motion? Voyager has no need for power to continue its journey; running out of power will have no effect on its velocity.
My guess is that, aside from attitude adjustment, Voyager hasn't fired its thrusters since its encounter with Titan in 1980.
And I hear they have replaced the thrusters with the mafia for attitude adjustments of greater scale.
80 mg Oxycontin tablets / month (suitable only for a seriously terminal cancer patient)
I have back pain, you insensitive clod. BACK PAIN It hurts!
So go see a chiropractor.
It kinda surprises me how many "smart people" don't seem to realize that developing a heroin addiction isn't going to do shit to fix whatever's causing you pain.
It's kind of surprising home many smart people think that doctors and chiropractors can do anything for certain types of neck and back problems. I have a friend who hurt her back playing college basketball. She had 4 surgeries that just made her back worse every time. She takes narcotics because she needs something for the pain. Otherwise she'd probably want to kill herself. Is she an addict? Certainly. But you can't take narcotics long term without becoming physically addicted. It is physiologically impossible. That doesn't mean she is abusing them and out on the street trying to supplement her prescriptions. Also, heroine is an opiate but not all opiates are heroine.
Almost. Heroin is an opioid as it has primary affinities to the mu opioid receptor. To be an opioid it must be a ligand for any opioid receptor(k,mu ect.). Now opiates are opioids derived from P. Somniferum (opium poppy) like morphine, codeine, thebaine. All opiates are opioids but not the reverse.
Heroin is diacetyl-morphine (discovered when Bayer was acetylating everything they touched which led to their most well known drug ever, acetyl-salycitic acid or Aspirin.) which makes it a semi-synthetic opioid like hydrocodone, the former from morphine the latter generally from thebaine.
It was developed to battle the cough from TB while being less reinforcing than morphine. They were truly embarrassed to discover heroin is inactive and bioactivates to it's pro-drug in the central nervous system, morphine. Due to the pharmacology heroin enters the brain more quickly following injection than morphine, after which the physiological effects are identical. The subjective size of the "rush" has to do with how quickly the brain reaches peak levels, making heroin preferable to people abusing it recreationally, and inconsequential for the treatment of pain (in most countries).
Why Britain still uses Heroin in palliative care is beyond me when there are stronger, less stigmatized drugs like oxymorphone.
Spidergoat, the secondary menace to Al after, of course, man-bear-pig.
Mendel tried to share. Wegener tried to share. Aristarchus of Samos tried to share. Society chose to cover their ears, close their eyes, and sing "la la la".
Schrader, Ambrose, Rüdiger and van der Linde also tried to share their discovery, but ultimately, the German High command decided not to use nerve agents against allied targets in WWII.
Some things should not be "shared".
Hitler was actually the one who demanded they not be used, but sarin was to be stockpiled anyway. I believe this was due to an experience he had during WW1.
Your message, and the way it disparages the 'left' is in itself a refutation of the idea that Texas is tolerant.
As far as Texas being successful, the fact that its citizens have the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country puts that under great question.
The fact that Texas is tied for last place in the percentage of its children with health care insurance and is fourth in the nation in child poverty again brings into question as to whether it is 'successful'.
The decisions on things like teaching evolution in Texas schools call into question the process by which it is governed. The fact that Texas ranks 50th among the states in percentage of citizens over 25 with a high school diploma illustrates the impact of these decisions.
This.
Texas has some successful rankings like one of the only red states to give rather than take from the federal government. Rent is cheap, gas is cheap, no state income tax. But we are far from perfect.
And tolerance is generally centered on the major metropolitan areas, there are plenty of bigots out there.
I'm sorry but, people protesting Iraq were ignored by the media?
100,000+ in NYC, I recall it quite well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest#United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trementina_Base
You're all wrong,There is is only one way to preserve his word from destruction by psychiatrists or evil Xenu.
According to the CST, an entity formed to manage the Church of Scientology's copyright affairs, the purpose of the base is to provide storage space for an archiving project to preserve Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings, films and recordings for future generations. Hubbard's texts have been engraved on stainless steel tablets and encased in titanium capsules underground. The project began in the late 1980s.
So, one day the government will try to regulate high quality sand....
That will effect direct metal sintering how?
Why wouldn't you just buy several 600mbit packages? Get tight with your neighbors on each side and peer your connections. Who can really saturate a single line like that anyway? Maybe when 4K TV's become the new HD minimum and you can stream it. (and Sony's 4K LCD is $25,000, of course they throw in a free Xperia tablet, but they should really pay you to take it.)
I bet they weren't even double blinded!
Aldous Huxley had it more right then George Orwell: distract the people with luxuries and short term goals, at the expense of long-term freedoms. That said, his dystopia was arguably not one: it wasn't like those who brooked changed were murdered or imprisoned or tortured - they were just discredited and lavished with benefits, but ultimately kept irrelevant.
I find Huxley's world more depressing. At least Winston can feel.